Biography
Kornath Madhavan earned a Ph.D. from Annamalai University. Madhavan is currently a Professor Emeritus of Biology at ̳. Over the course of Madhavan's career, he has taught courses ranging from:
- Organismal Biology
- The Biology of Reproduction
- Introduction to Biology 1
- Developmental Biology
- Histology
- Endocrinology
Madhavan asserts that one of the seminal questions in developmental biology is the appearance of pattern or form during development. That question is central to Madhavan's studies where he uses genetic, microsurgical, thermocautery (destruction of cells by heat), histological, immuno- and cytochemical and electron microscopical techniques. Madhavan also uses the fruit fly and other flies as experimental organisms.
Publications
- M.M. Madhavan and K. Madhavan. 2003. Analysis of histoblasts. In “Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols,” D.S. Henderson, ed., Human Press, Inc., NJ.
- Madhavan, K., D.A. Rapko, and M.M. Madhavan. 1996. Sequential development of chaetal pattern in the adult abdominal cuticle of a transgenic Drosophila. Dev. Biol. 175:390. (Abstract)
- Madhavan, K., and M.M. Madhavan. 1995. Defects in the adult abdominal integument of Drosophila caused by mutations in torpedo, a DER homolog. Roux's Arch. Dev. Biol. 204:330-335.
- Madhavan, K., and A. Picarillo. 1994. Differential lacZ expression in the diploid and polytene cells of Drosophila melanogaster. Dros. Inf. Ser. 75:132-133.
- Madhavan, K., and M.M. Madhavan. 1994. Negative growth control of mitotically active imaginal cells (histoblasts) of the abdominal epidermis during metamorphosis of the housefly. J. Morph. 222:301-307.
- Madhavan, K., and M.M. Madhavan, and S.C. Wadsworth. 1991. Role of DER gene on the morphogenesis of adult abdominal epidermis of Drosophila. J. Cell Biol. 115:14. (Abstract).
- Madhavan, K., and M.M. Madhavan. 1990. Pattern regulation in the ventral histoblasts of the housefly: Induction of sternal pattern abnormalities by mechanical wounding of larval epidermal cells. Dev. Biol. 139:42-55.